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Divers Recover Body Of Rockland Man Who Jumped Into Greenwood Lake To Save Kids Divers Recover Body Of Rockland Man Who Jumped Into Greenwood Lake To Save Kids
Divers Recover Body Of Rockland Man Who Jumped Into Greenwood Lake To Save Kids State Police divers have recovered the body of a man who jumped into Greenwood Lake to save two children. Greenwood Lake Police said the incident took place Sunday, Aug. 18, when children on a crowded pontoon boat were swimming in the lake with life vests on when two of them began to struggle attempting to get back in the boat around 5 p.m. One of the people aboard the boat, Dovid Traube, 38, of Chestnut Ridge, jumped into the water to save the kids, Greenwood Lake police said.  Traube, who wasn’t wearing a life vest, was successful at getting the kids back into the boat, but then wen…

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by Kathy Reakes
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One Seriously Injured After Rollover Crash With Entrapped Driver In Area One Seriously Injured After Rollover Crash With Entrapped Driver In Area
One Seriously Injured After Rollover Crash With Entrapped Driver In Area One person was seriously injured during a single-vehicle rollover crash in Monroe that required extrication of the driver. The crash took place around noon, Monday, April 22, near 283 Nelson Road, said Greenwood Lake Fire Department Chief Michael Dunlop. When firefighters and rescue arrived on the scene they found the vehicle had flipped and was on its roof with the driver hanging half out of the window and entrapped, Dunlop said. Firefighters quickly called in for a medical helicopter to fly the man to an area hospital following extrication due to the seriousness of his injury, the chief …

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by Kathy Reakes